Technical Bulletin No. 0380: A Review of Workplace Measurement Methods for Formaldehyde

The attached technical bulletin is a review of methods currently being used or recently developed for workplace, and in some cases ambient, measurements of formaldehyde. It describes five formaldehyde measurement methods, namely (a) wet chemical, (b) solid sorbent sampling tube, (c) diffusion based passive samplers, (d) length of stain detector tubes and (e) direct reading instruments, currently in, or offered for use. The extent to which each of these has already been evaluated is also described with particular reference to whether this evaluation has incorporated potential inferences that might be encountered with their use in the forest products industry.